Assignment #8 The Necklace=)

Throughout your lifetime you learn from your mistakes, you either learn simple things your mother taught you or you learn things the hard way. When you read the story "The Necklace," you quickly learn lots of lessons taught in the story, and these aren't typical everyday lessons they are lessons that we as people often take for granted in life. That is exactly what the main character did in this story, she got too caught up in herself and thought she deserved better than everyone else just because she was beautiful. Instead of just coming out with the truth since the beginning she decided to lie, and her lies caught up to her for about ten years, finally after those ten years, she found out that if she had just been truthful since the beginning, she wouldn't have to work her payback so hard all these years and boy did she have to get a payback! She lost what she had the most, her beauty.

In every story there are morals that come with them. Some are very obvious, but others are hard to seek, but will eventually come out. "The Necklace" had quite several of them that taught me many things. Lying doesn't get you anywhere in life, I know we as humans all lie, but if your lies get too deep than they are after you, it will turn around on you and bite you right back, where it hurts the most. You can lose so much just for lying. Like Mathilde did, all those years of being jealous of everyone else, and wanting to have money, riches, clothes and jewels didn't help her at all in the end.

With time people get old, ugly, and wither away. You will not be remembered for how beautiful you are on the outside and how much money and stuff you had. You will be remembered by the type of person you were in the inside, and the things you did with your life, to make you the best person you can be. Once you get at a certain age it won't matter to you about looks, and stuff and from that moment then you will find the true meaning of life. You just got to enjoy everything god gave you, and count your blessings. If you were born poor with a very bad family, there are ways to overcome that. For example, get an education a good spouse and make a beautiful well educated family and teach them all you can about life. Give them everything you can, but also make them understand that in life you can't always get what you want and that there are just things that matter more.